Digitalnewspapers.org: The Digital Newspapers Program at the University of Utah

John Herbert, Kenning Arlitsch

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This article describes the Utah Digital Newspapers Program at the University of Utah's Marriott Library. Background information regarding the historical importance of newspapers, the current state of commercial newspaper digitization, and the problems with small newspaper digitization are reviewed, and the solution provided by the University of Utah is offered. Details are provided for the program's history, funding, goals, and future plans. Other topics covered include the trade-offs between microfilm and hard copy source materials, how titles were selected, the processes and technologies utilized, Website organization, displaying PDF files with Macintosh computers, and using bi-tonal or grayscale images.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-115
Number of pages17
JournalSerials Librarian
Volume47
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Contentdm
  • Digital library
  • Digital newspapers
  • Digitization
  • iArchives
  • Optical character recognition
  • University of Utah

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